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- Sixth Photo MemeDecember 3
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Len hit me with a photo meme, so I’m honor bound to continue the menace tradition. Here are the rules:
“It works like this: if you use Flickr, go to the sixth page of your photostream and pick the sixth picture there, then post it to your blog.”
OK! You see the result above, which was taken from the Halloween party at Future US, where I work to produce Qore. Seems fitting, since I’ve been playing so much Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3 that I see zombies in my dreams almost every single night. It’s becoming an issue.
Now it’s time for the fun part: tagging someone else! Here are the lucky six: Ryan Block, Tom Merritt, Casey McKinnon, Lan Bui, Ariel Waldman and Felicia Day. If you don’t carry on the meme, just know that you’ll have utterly let me down and that we may never be friends again. No
- iTunes Best of 2008 Awards!December 2
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Yay! Tekzilla came in as one of iTunes Best of 2008 (iTunes store link here) for Podcast picks in the classic video category! Other pals that took the prize include:
2008 Audio
gdgt weekly2008 Video
ill doctrine
Scam School
Project LoreClassic Audio
TWiT
MacCast
Coverville
Buzz Out LoudClassic Video
Ask A Ninja
Wine Library TV
GeekBrief
Diggnation
MAKE: MagazineCongrats to everyone!!
- Site issues todayNovember 26
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Oh man, looks like a slightly older version of Joomla that was installed somewhere on my host’s server got hacked, and in the process took down this blog and many others hosted on the same machine. It’s obviously back online now, though (thanks, Ryan!), and the gang at Laughing Squid tell me the rest will be restored from backup shortly. Thanks for your patience!
- Help me raise money for Child’s Play!November 20
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It’s always a good time to lend a helping hand to people in need, but since the holidays are fast approaching it seems we’re all more aware of it than ever. I’m working with the folks from Humanety.com to raise money for Child’s Play, the charity started by Penny Arcade!
I’ll chat with the winner in a 30-minute long video call, and we can talk about games, tech, your favorite bacon products… whatever! Child’s Play brings games and gaming consoles to sick kids in hospitals all over the country, so it means a lot to me to brighten up their holiday.
The auction starts today and runs until the 30th of November! I hope you guys will get involved, if it’s within your means to do so.
Learn more about the rules and about Humanety.
THANK YOU!
- Does PR spam do more harm than good?November 19
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Email blasts from public relations people have become the norm — everyday is a new battle for managing my inbox, and trying to sort the crap from the valuable information. But at this point, how can we even tell what’s valuable and relevant to us, when almost every blast looks and sounds the same?
I asked this question to the Twitterverse this morning: “This is an honest question, not intended to be snarky: Do people read PR blast emails? Or just delete on sight? Depend on the product?”
The response was huge, and overwhelmingly leaning toward “delete on sight.” There were also many with a slightly less itchy trigger finger, like Michael Gaines (@istarman) who says: “Depends. I know whether I should read the whole thing after the first sentence.” I’m in that boat as well, as long as the first sentence isn’t written in all caps.
Clearly, it costs almost nothing to send an email blast to thousands of people, so the return of just a few bloggers and journalists writing about the topic is probably worth it to them. But do these emails turn people off of a product that they might otherwise be interested in? I’ve built spam filters around entire people and companies now, since they had such a bad track record of poorly executed form emails. If they suddenly represent a product that I might enjoy,